Originally posted by wsn
Oh! The CSM story again. There wasn't any substantial work on that software since quite some years. It surely WAS good in 1996 but there have been some long cold winters since ... and other manufacturers did not use that time for a long sleep.
It was quite good in 1999 when the last major release came out too.
I realise you're just doing a sales job and justifying the price of your own product but I'd be interested to know what major changes you imagine there have been to Physics as it applies to flight since 1999. The flight model in CSM was right then and it's still right now.
I quite agree that you and the others have managed to catch up and all the modern sims are certainly a lot prettier than CSM (and need much more computing power). But I always get suspicious when I see people rubbishing the competition. It usually means their product can't stand up on its own. Several of the pretty new sims have much worse flight models than CSM. I don't know whether yours is one of them because I've never owned a copy nor have I ever met anyone who owned it.
All I said was that CSM is what I use. That's the truth. I've tried a number of the newer sims and I still keep going back to CSM because I like realistic flight more than I like pretty pictures. Feel free to send me a copy of your sim if you'd like me to recommend that (if it really is better)
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Steve